I Can Succeed Elsewhere: Fact or (Fan) Fiction?

While there are many sites online that harbor fan fiction, I settled on FanFiction.net (FF.net) to fulfill my writing itch. Both sites focus upon the posting of original writing, the reading of such work, and the leaving of feedback, but that’s where the similarities end. As you can see by visiting the main page, it’s a far cry from Blogger’s slick appearance. Moreover, as a site that caters to fiction authors, there aren’t many opportunities to appeal to the readers with rhetoric (entertainment writing, i.e., fiction, has no desire, no need, to “convince” the reader of anything, after all). Be that as it may, I am afforded, with my FF.net account, an “About the Author” page (from which, also, all of my published work can be accessed). Once again, I loaded up on details of invented ethos: I am, by virtue of that opening sentence, an avid WoW player (but you already knew that) and a Battlefield 2 player as well—humanizing details that signify my occasional departure from that lonely ivory tower. Lest the reader of my little bio conclude I’m all play and no work, though, I beef up my résumé by mentioning not only my pursuit of an English degree (self-deprecatingly, naturally) but also a watershed moment from my high school days. I can upload, and in fact have, an image of myself (a postage-stamp-sized one, sadly).